Favorite films

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  The Surfer 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  ‘The Surfer’ takes us on a mind-numbing adventure and only Nick Cage can deliver this masterpiece of a performance as a man who is gaslit, manipulated, and has to navigate the blurred lines btweeen reality and the surreal. It’s cooky, weird and entertaining. And did the casting director intentionally cast Pedro Pascal and Oscar Isaac’s doppelgängers?

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  Slanted 2025

  ★★★★½ Watched 10 Mar 2025

  Just saw the movie ‘Slanted’ directed by Amy Wang and boy was this movie powerful. And eye opening account and the obsession of Eurocentric standards of beauty. There’s bits of ‘The Substance’ as we do get some body horror in this. But there’s a deeper story about race and and identity. This is definitely one of my favorite movies out of the fest so far.

Popular reviews

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  Wicked 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 08 Nov 2024

  Delightful, magical and a film I needed to escape to during just the right time. Loved the music, the elaborate production design, the costumes and the performances will resonate with you.

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  A Real Pain 2024

  ★★★★★ Watched 20 Jan 2024

  Kieran Culkin is by far one of the most talented and entertaining actors of our time right now. He shines in this film. While I wasn’t a fan of Jesse Eisenberg’s feature directorial debut, he made up for it in this incredibly nuanced portrayal of about family, loss, and understanding how to tackle grief in such a compelling way. My favorite of Sundance so far.

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